Barbola Funeral Chapel

Daniel Anthony Beyer

Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Today I put away the shaker, washed the last glass, poured my last drink. I’m finally bartending where the drinks flow freely and the bars never close. I hated to leave my beautiful wife, LuAnn, my family I love so dear, and the friends who walked my path with me, but my body is now whole and I’m glad to be home.

My path started with my birth on June 5, 1946, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Alex C. and Eunice B. Slominski Beyer. I was born one of a pair, with my twin brother, David Allen. We had three sisters Roberta (Bobbie), Carol Lynn and Sandra Louise. Our folks thought they were done with the birth of their sons but four years later Elizabeth Ruth made us an even half dozen. The house we grew up in (which our paternal grandparents built) on Center St. in Milwaukee was always crowded but never boring.

We all attended grade school at St. Casimir’s and David and I later attended Boy’s Technical School, Milwaukee. I graduated from the printing department, which I eventually put to use when I joined the printing department at CHN Berlin Memorial Hospital, a job I held until I retired.

I joined the Army in 1964 and learned the skills I found I enjoyed the most when I was assigned to temporary duty at the officer’s club as a bartender in Indian Town Gap, PA. I was then sent to Augsburg, Germany for the duration of my duty. When I got out of service I went back to work at A.O. Smith in Milwaukee but also got a part time job bartending at one of the local taverns.

My bartending skills were really put to use when my mother, my brother, David and I bought the Whiting Hotel in Berlin, WI, in 1970. The hotel is where I met and fell in love with my future wife, LuAnn Drover in 1975. The Beyers owned the hotel until 1979 at which time I became the bar manager at Mascoutin Country Club in Berlin for a few years. I then moved to Norton’s Marine Dining in Green Lake where I tended bar fulltime and then part time until 2007.

LuAnn and I married on October 26, 1996, on the beautiful St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Throughout our time together we shared our home with a number of “furry children” who only kept us around to cater to their needs. Our love was also blessed by being “favorite aunt and uncle” to many loved nephews, nieces, great nieces and nephews and now welcoming the next generation.

I may be gone but my wife, LuAnn will continue to be surrounded with love from all our family members; our sisters, Roberta (Bobbie) Erdmann, Sandie Schneck, Beth Foster, Jeanie Schmude, Donna (Tom) Oberloh, Bobbie (Ken) Peterson and brother, John Drover.

Our many nephews and nieces will also help support LuAnn, Eric and Kim Harthun, daughter, Avery and son, Gabe; Kristi Branchford and daughters, Hailey and Grace; Sheri & Dan Grobner and daughters, Emmalie, and Alexa; Monica & Mike Monohan and daughter, Morgan; Tyler and Peggy Gray Erdmann and son, Cody and daughter, Lindy (Marc) Kadish and their son; Terry Erdmann and wife, Jennifer Van Sistine, his daughter, Kristin (Sean) Crosby and their children and his son, Aaron; Maria & Mark Crass and son, Nick and daughter, Kayla; Janette & L.A. Wright; Janine & Pete Taylor and son, Brandon; Toni Powers Dewey and daughter, MacKenzie; Angela Ziske and daughter, Alycia (Ethan) Koenig; Karilyn Beyer and daughter, Amanda (Mauricio) Lopez and their children; Keith Beyer and partner, Andi Miller; Charles Foster and children, Kyle, Eden and Isla; Jenna & Ben Stashek and daughters, Chandra and Ashley, Jordan Mueller, and Carrie Schmude; plus other family and friends.

On my road home I will be joined by my parents, Alex and Eunice Beyer, my mother-in-law, Helen Drover; my brother, David; sister, Carol Harthun; and brothers-in-law, Lee Erdmann, Joe Foster, and Jim Schneck. With my brother-in-law, Lee Erdmann, we will also be joining the members of the “World’s Problem Solvers” from the McDonald’s morning coffee bunch of Berlin to resume problem solving.

A gathering of family and friends will be held on Tuesday, April 26, from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., at Barbola Funeral Chapel in Berlin. Memorial services will be held at 6:30 p.m., at the funeral chapel, Father John Silva officiating. Military honors performed by Wells-Krause VFW Post #2925 will be at 7:00 p.m. Inurnment will be in Oakwood Cemetery at a later date. Memorials may be directed to American Heart Association and St. Jude’s Hospital. Anyone wishing to send a sympathy card to the family, please mail to Daniel Beyer, c/o Barbola Funeral Chapel, PO Box 201, Berlin, WI 54923.